Example sentences of "[prep] his friend 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | From his locked cupboard he took out an envelope , which he had received soon after his friend 's death . |
| 2 | ‘ Now , ’ as the naturalist Tomasso Salvadori commented after his friend 's death , ‘ arrived the most important moment in Gould 's life , and the consequences which it had have never been equalled in the annals of ornithology . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Friel had staggered back towards his friend 's house and they had heard him shouting for help . |
| 4 | Stephen had turned his smiling eyes towards his friend 's face , flattered by his confidence and won over to sympathy by the speaker 's simple accent . ’ |
| 5 | Romeo has none of his friend 's worldliness , and one of Timothy Welton 's best moments in the part is the animal way he leans and pushes at Richard Hague 's Benvolio in trying to do dying Tybalt further hurt ; another is his early gaucheness approaching Juliet . |
| 6 | In exasperation Modi painted a portrait of Chaim Soutine on a door of the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara , as a permanent reminder of his friend 's great talent , to Hanka 's fury . |
| 7 | Just as Coleridge in 1796 abandoned political life in dismay , so Wordsworth now turned from politics in search of another version of his friend 's ‘ deep Sabbath of meek self-content ’ . |
| 8 | Craig Grenfell stared moodily through the window of his friend 's house in Chapel Street , his hands were thrust into his pockets , and his shoulders were slumped . |
| 9 | Faced with the ridiculous fakes which my father always found even in the best books , he thought that the publication of his collection would be the best defence and illustration of his friend 's genius . |
| 10 | Or was Otto 's summary dismissal of his friend 's insults something to do with his feeling himself of greater social and intellectual consequence than Jean-Claude ? |
| 11 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 12 | He 'd relayed the news to Harry , hoping it would put his fickle sister out of his friend 's mind once and for all . |
| 13 | The kidnapping of his friend 's son , the policy of intermittent , small-scale attacks , together with the persistent driving winds ( no hurricane had hit , but nevertheless the autumn gales had torn at the trees all night and blown his nerves to bits ) , and the impending birth of his child by the savage girl who 'd taken possession of him — all this harried Kit Everard in his sleep until more than once , he was ready to move on , find another island , preferably entirely uninhabited . |
| 14 | Boswell at Dunvegan vacillates between huge enjoyment of his friend 's celebrity and performance , and acute discomfort at some of the conversational and social occurrences . |
| 15 | Little by little , however , he became tired of his friend 's refusal to see him , and his visits became less frequent . |
| 16 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 17 | I picture him in the back of his friend 's flat where he is staying . |
| 18 | Tuppe took advantage of his friend 's largesse . |
| 19 | When Tommy studied the state of his friend 's face that night as Charlie lay on his bed , all he said was , ‘ Sorry , mate , all my fault . |
| 20 | Between the sheets with his friend 's wife , or desperately trying to beat his latest computer game , Cameron is horrified to realise he — cool Colley — is suspect number one in the hunt for a serial killer . |
| 21 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 22 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 23 | We see the younger brother 's personality reflected in his friend 's portrait of this atheist mathematical economist : the stony heights and rare atmosphere in which his mind moved ; the easy efficiency of the intellectual machine which ground away beneath his broad smiling face , his bulky Johnsonian frame , and spontaneous gurgling laugh , and simplicity of feeling , and honesty of heart and mind and purpose ; and with it a common sense and practicality . |
| 24 | He tells me he was sharing a room with his friend while Suzie had a bed in his friend 's sister 's room . |
| 25 | Athelstan saw the pain in his friend 's face and looked away . |
| 26 | Billy pulled away from his friend 's arm and made towards the empty yard . |
| 27 | The other evening I went to pick up my other son from his friend 's house . |
| 28 | With great self-restraint , he did not grab the rod from his friend 's hand . |
| 29 | Jonathan 's father , Stephen Whitley , 38 , who had been draining petrol from his friend 's car , died nine days later . |
| 30 | Erlich drew the sheet back over his friend 's wretched face . |